Pros: Epic isn't shy about giving you lots of responsibility early on. This leads to rapid career growth.

Cons: Depending on your team, work-life balance is terrible. Upper management isn't receptive to employee feedback. Turnover is high.

Pros: Because Epic Systems has industry-leading pay, your co-workers will be smart and motivated. It's a great place to start working right out of college. Many of your co-workers will be around your age, and since so many people are being hired, you'll have a whole group of people in your same situation.

Cons: You will be expected to work long hours. A 40-hour work week is almost unheard of at Epic. If you want to advance in the company, you will be working 55+ hour weeks. The CEO said she didn't like the term "work/life balance" and preferred thinking of it as "work/life integration." If that's not a warning sign, I don't know what is.

Pros: Made software that will help doctors do their job better. Learned mobile development. Epic has a really cool campus, and the food is awesome. I had my own office – with a door and a huge whiteboard. I was largely responsible for myself; I got my work done, and people didn't question how I spent my time, which offered lots of freedom. Beautiful campus. Epic is doing something really great for healthcare. My boss and his boss (also my boss) were and are great.

Cons: Epic 360 (they had us sit in on a lot of new hire classes). Some of them were awesome, like the tech talks. But there was this week of Epic 360. It was like half-day classes where they taught us about how people use their healthcare software. It wasn't detailed enough to be all that useful, but it was detailed to the point of taking a week's worth of classes. Most interns agree it was a huge waste. I admit, I ended up sleeping through a lot of it. The work can get overwhelming. It's pretty much: get as much done as you can get done. Which, when you're an overachiever, can be really taxing. You feel like you're never working hard enough, but you're actually working harder than you're used to.